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The storied past of a century-old hotel

Wade Stephens

DESCRIBED as the most imposing, substantial and well-built commercial brick building in Merbein, the Merbein Hotel has officially turned 100. The first parts of the double-storey building cornering Fisher Lane, Game Street and Railway Avenue were built in 1921 as a no-alcohol accommodation facility known as Commercial House. Merbein District Historical Society president Bernadette Wells […]

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